April 4, 2012

"Any big bright ideas on how I can earn some extra bank for my hoohah? Surely that was one of the courses you took when you were learning everything there is to know about bajingos. Because the thing is? My bajingo is here to stay. And it needs constant care and attention, just like a hermit crab, or a dwarf hamster. So please tell me you really do know everything there is to know about lady caves. This lady cave needs cash, big time. For medicine. So it doesn’t explode."

Choose a cheaper college than Georgetown. Perhaps one in a town with a lower cost of living and better medical care. If the illness is very serious, then perhaps taking out thousands in student loans isn't as important as taking care of your medical needs.

McSweeney, a publishing company based in San Francisco, describes itself as “small and irresponsible, and afflicted with mold-born allergies”. After reading the related piece, submitted by Ms. Roy, I realized that no humor was intended and that the company's allergies are socially transmittable.

"You have a problem and need money for it" does not mean "I need to give you money for your problem".

"I have a problem and need money for it" does not mean "you need to give me money for my problem".

Understanding those two sentences would clear up a lot of left-wing misconceptions about this "war on women". It isn't that we (or I, at least) have a problem with birth control. We have a problem with spending our hard-earned money on fixing your problems. Pay for it yourself. If you find yourself destitute because of lack of hoo-hah funding, THEN ask for a handout. But ask -- don't demand.

A civilized society capable of preserving individual dignity has a prerequisite where participating individuals are capable of self-moderating behavior.

Also, there does not exist, or should not, anyway, a woman's right to pursue elective abortion of a developing human life which was conceived following a voluntary behavior.

The Democrats, and their supporters, need to reflect on their heritage, and comprehend that they are, in fact, repeating the human and civil rights transgressions, which their predecessors and ancestors were predisposed to. Granted, they have successfully repackaged and sold their old ways; but, fortunately, only to a minority of Americans.

Oh, one more thing. It's not just a "tiny white man." In fact, absent the corruptive influences of redistributive and retributive change, Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, etc., in the majority, embrace the natural order and its evolutionary fitness judge. And no one enjoys progressive involuntary exploitation. So, reconsider your valuation of human life, and the individual dignity of those you would presume to exploit without their consent.

That said, I congratulate Americans who are capable of resisting the temptations of physical, material, and ego instant gratification. They do not contribute to progressive corruption and they do not diminish evolutionary fitness. They do embrace voluntary exploitation, including economic exchange, and charitable works and donations to aid individuals who falter. They do embrace the intrinsic value of human life, throughout it development. They do contribute to the stability and viability of our society and humanity.

If this kind of approach doesn't inform you of the primary problem with government in your health insurance, it should.

A completely voluntary item that is not needed for your health is gonna be whined for like this with indignation aimed at those expected to pay for it. This will be endless until half the items in the drug store must be provided free by your insurance, as well as all the crap currently sold on infomercials at 3 am. The whining for free stuff will be an endless cacophony of primarily vaginal voices and the little white beta men who hang around them like remora for protection. Think of your cousin or aunt that is always on something new she saw on TV or heard from her friends. Now you will be buying it for her.

This will grow the system into a behemoth that will consume so much of the national treasure, time, market energy and goodwill between Americans that there will be nothing else ever discussed. This is quickly becoming the situation in the U.K. It's all they ever talk about - costs and benefits of the NHS.

"Sometimes I'm just so embarrassed and ashamed to be female. This is one of those times."

DBQ, just think of how superior it makes us men feel though. It's worth it. Lately, I'm feeling pretty good about my gender choice. I know it's not a choice yet, but wait for few years and it will be covered, including multiple reversals if I change my mind, which I will do often once I get on the estrogen.

Anyways, bagoh's dead on. Anything that ladycave's want will now be a national imperative, the lack of which is Misogyny, and results in another National Conversation about how white mens hates the bajingos.

How insipid and childish. No little white man, or big white man, wants in her underpants. Quite the opposite, we want out. We don't want to pay for what happens in her underpants. Support yourself, little girl.

I've studied the selection very carefully, but I did not yet get to the source.

The sample appears to be English. I'd bet on it. It shows certain hallmarks of that language, in certain areas, I think, and during a specific period, I think, and among a certain subculture, admittedly while ignoring more important broader canon. It's hard to tell for sure which period but it is almost certainly English, it is achingly similar, I would say derived.

The syntax is shot. The vocabulary apparently gravely distorted. Heavy use of euphemism, synonyms, and those stretched to include items outside the class even so far as to embrace antonyms. It shows a non rigid structure and it is highly idiosyncratic. It appears to obfuscate as much as communicate.

As far as the message conveyed, I haven't a solid clue. My first guess would be a elegy to the human condition, a cynical plea to God or a cry to Nature itself.

Her point is that it's easier to give her what she wants than listen to her. Being generally weaker, the female has developed the primary power play of being dissatisfied. That always works, eventually, often immediately. Didn't Althouse try that one just today. She got her page views, didn't she?

2) Where does declining to pay for contraception equate to declining to pay for treatment for health issues. It's not an omission of a particular treatment, like hormone pills, but a particular diagnosis code.

We're talking about declining to create a medical diagnosis code of "doesn't want to get pregnant." Hormonal imbalances, cancers, and any other medical diagnosis code get covered as a health issue.

3) Unless she is poor and intends to stay poor, she's paying for it. Routing routine treatments or health care costs through some 3rd party gains nothing, unless you intend to take out more than you put in.

Quaestor said...Is Kari Ann Roy trying to be funny, or is she trying to draw the attention of Oliver Sachs? I understand the title of his next book is The Woman Who Mistook Her Hooha for a National Priority.

4/4/12 9:49 PM

Thread winner.

Or as Roissey would say to her husband, man up, stop being a beta and turn her out on the corner to earn her pills.

bagoh2o, I like how Google/Blogger took an ugly but comprehensible, legible comments posting page (the beige and blue one of old), and replaced it with an ugly, incomprehensible, badly formatted, buggy and illegible version. Heckuva job, Google!

And I also like the fact that, despite the implementation of the torturous, buggy "Please prove you're not a robot" verification system, the spammers are still getting through, and at about the same frequency as they did with the single-word word verification system Blogger used to use.

Inefficient, irritating, burdensome and completely ineffective solutions to problems— I can see why Google is in bed with the Obama administration. Soulmates!

I thought was hilarious. The thread comment I see here seems to be mostly men, except for DBQ, who doesn't seem to like talk about hoo-haws. So do all y'all guys realize you are acting like Tiny White Men? No, huh. That part escaped you.

Obamacare mandates everyone buys insurance or pays the penalty and that all insurance companies provide free contraceptives. The first part of the equation extracts big dollars from the young and distributes to everyone else. The second part ensures that sexually active young women are partially compensated. Really it is the healthy but unattractive and awkward young man who is well and truly fucked. By Obamacare I mean.

1. "McSweeny's" came on over a decade ago as a great new generation's literary publishing adventure. I always suspected that the McSweeny's venture was more of a political tract than a literary endeavour - this entry confirms that suspicion.

2. Beating up on the 'White Man' at this late date? Shows that you are swathed in a world of self reference beyond the reach of rational observation. Clitorectomies, burkhas, subjection to male imperatives...ah well, let's pick easy targets, easy enemies. We wouldn't want to engage with real oppression now would we. Better to beat up on the white patened leather shoe, checked pants republican white man of the brain-dead left's wilted imagination.

3. How disappointing that the highest profile 'youth' publishing venture of our day follows the Occupy, boomer template when it comes to satire, rebellion against the system, etc...yawn...where is the youthful rebellion against the boomer generation?

3. How disappointing that the highest profile 'youth' publishing venture of our day follows the Occupy, boomer template when it comes to satire, rebellion against the system, etc...yawn...where is the youthful rebellion against the boomer generation?

I guess you don't realize that you're it. And that no one promised you you'd like it.

Your condescension is quite...condescending. Do you always live on a pedestal? How's the weather up there? Sounds cold.

"I think gay marriage is a sin."Don't get married to someone of the same sex then.

"I want my kids to learn about creationism."Take them to church."

Odd that you should think those "all" of anyone's problems; odder still you left out real problems, like self-absorbed, selfish idiots wanting someone else to pay for their stuff, or those same self-absorbed, selfish idiots voting for politicians who will tax someone else, or borrow from future generations, to give those self-absorbed, selfish idiots stuff they didn't earn, or aren't responsible enough to take care of on their own.

Did anyone happen to catch that the great portion of the post was about a serious medical condition and not about "consequence-free' sex? Anyone? Anyone?

I guess your attention took the day off.

BTW, what is the big deal about bp being prescribed and covered for these kinds of medical conditions?

I suspect that if one of your testicles swole up, you had a prescription plan, and your doctor gave you a script for "testicles swole-up meds" you'd expect to have it covered. Just because your jewels are capable of other functions doesn't mean they should be neglected.

Oh honey, you know that there is a distinction between medical (non-contraceptive) and non-medical (contraceptive) usage of COCP (estrogen/progestin). No one worth considering is arguing against insurance coverage of the non-contraceptive use of COCP. But that is not what you and your lady-friends are demanding. This argument, such as it is, is about coverage of COCP as contraception. To pretend otherwise is, of course, disingenuous.

But of course, disingenuous conflation of the issues is what you people do.

Medical insurance in general is the problem with health care, which women are not going to ever understand. Math is hard.

It's a free pill so you're better off taking it, even if it diverts resources from better uses.

The high taking of pills sends a price signal to the economy that more pills are needed, more people diverted to making pills, more pill machinery.

None of these things would be diverted if you had to pay what the pills cost, because you have a better use for your premium money. Your money would have then instead then send a signal to the economy about what you actually prefer.

So you wind up taking second best - the pill - because you don't have the option of the first best - whatever your premium money would have gone to.

Third party payments raise prices and divert resources from better uses.

Multiply that by 300 million people, add in lobbying and regulatory capture by pill suppliers, and it's a death spiral.

Against that, no doctor can stay in business charging more than patients are willing to pay, as in the 50s when people just paid the bills, and medical costs were an economic textbook example of selective pricing, since the service can't be transferred. The doctors charged according to the patient.

In fact there was a joke specialty "diseases of the rich" in medical school.

Pfft. I saw this days ago. Nonsensical, jejune snark from someone who thinks they're oh so clever. Pity garage is married (or so I understand). The two of them would probably hit it off comparing their Bush=Hitler and walker=Hitler buttons.

MacSweeney's is hit or miss when it comes to humor, but they're generally better than this tripe.

the hooker in my wallet said if you were too irresponsible afford $3 a month contraception then you were also the type to dump the responsibility of supporting your bastard spawn on the taxpayers, so it's a pay me now or pay me later kind of thing.

leslyn ... with aklldue respect, just who is "arguing against" medically required medication, including contraceptive meds for other than birth control?

I've never seen or heard that argument, but would appreciate a link to one or more if you have seen/heard it.

There are many other medications that can be medically necessary and covered by health insurance (in every case I know of) that are otherwise not covered for their original purposes or are not over-the-counter meds otherwise ... for one example; diphenhydramine (aka Benadryl) in it's original formulation. In short, you got an itchy nose, you pay for it, if for some sleep related disorders or other malady, it is an Rx and the insurance does, with small co-pay.

I seriously doubt any arguemewnt against BC pills for medically erequired use will gain any headway ... it is a fringe issue at best.

@Tim ... I am quite confident Leslyn will find nor cite any such arguments. I was just trying to be nice, suppressing my inner wise arse etc.

It's really a weak assertion to begin with, because of all the exception that prove the rule of coverage ... another one is "Prilosec" aka "Omeprazole" ... can be OTC or Rx depending upon use or medical requirement.

I really grow weary of this woman versus man debate....which is what the argument seems about to me. Now when we're done with the hoohah, can we go on to the prostate?

1. "McSweeny's" came on over a decade ago as a great new generation's literary publishing adventure. I always suspected that the McSweeny's venture was more of a political tract than a literary endeavour - this entry confirms that suspicion.

Nah, McSweeney's is quality, IMO. Their political bent is unsurprising... I wouldn't write off their publications just because of a few things like this.

Tue Apr 3, 2012 6:50pm EDT (Reuters) -Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, will cut off birth-control coverage for its employees in July, a move that has divided faculty members and students on the Cincinnati campus....

"How it was handled ... (made it) seem more political, like they were trying to make a statement, rather than it being in the interest of their employees," said Jimmy Geiser, a junior majoring in philosophy.

Though she would not speculate as to why the university president made his decision, Dorothy Engle, chairwoman of the biology department, said she and many colleagues found the timing suspect. "It seems unusual to change the healthcare plan in the middle of the year," rather than wait until the open enrollment period when employees could sign on to a spouse's plan or look for other coverage, Engle said.

Xavier, which was founded in 1831 and serves 7,000 students, has a strong academic reputation. Engle, who has been a faculty member for more than 20 years, said the university has also been known for its "ecumenical" feel, welcoming students and faculty of all religions and encouraging lively discussions about faith. "It's always been very open," she said. "That's why it's a surprise that health insurance benefits would become an issue."

Some Catholic education experts said they hoped other colleges would follow Xavier's lead. "This is a very positive move," said Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, which pushes Catholic colleges to stay true to the church's teachings.

Crimminy - proof positive leslyn is a woman...first the argument is over coverage for contraceptives...then she shifts the argument to coverage for the pill for *medical* reasons...and then, finding no support that anyone is talking about taking away coverage for the pill for *medical* reasons, comes up with a link proving the first point - that no one should have to pay for anyone else's contraception if they don't want to - especially if it conflicts with their religious values.

What did you think? That the opposition to bc would--what--have a woman bring in a doctor's note attesting that she needed bc for non-contraceptive reasons, and the employer would decide whether or not she gets it? bc nazi: "No pills for you!"

February 28, 2012, before the House Judiciary Committee. Here is the exchange between Asma Uddin, an attorney from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX):

Nothing you pasted indicated that they would not cover BCP for medical reasons.

What did you think? That the opposition to bc would--what--have a woman bring in a doctor's note attesting that she needed bc for non-contraceptive reasons, and the employer would decide whether or not she gets it? bc nazi: "No pills for you!"

Basically.

If your doctor won't claim that it is medically necessary, then NOBODY should HAVE to cover it.

If you can't afford to screw around, don't expect me to pay for it for you.